Chapter 24 [024] Red Blood Sealing Array

"Although I'm not a sword cultivator and my ability to protect myself is indeed weak, the spiritual power in my body combined with the effect of Lingbing Pills is more than enough to cool myself down." Cangying looked at Shi Qing who was at the front and didn't quite agree with her: "But you, using spiritual power so extravagantly for a long time, with the halo covering three people, will make your body tired."

As Shi Qing's exclusive alchemist, she is responsible for Shi Qing's health at all times.

"No problem," Shi Qing raised his head slightly, looking a little noble and proud: "I'm strong."

Cangying: “…”

——Finally I know who my junior sister learned the proud look on her face when she discovered the cave from.

The upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked!
She stepped forward and punched Shi Qing on the head: "Strong, you, big, sir!!!"

"!!!"

A few seconds later, Shi Qing put a bag on his head, reducing the area of ​​the aperture so that only himself and his junior sister were covered. He walked silently in front.

Shen Xiang was frightened by Cangying's attack just now. She thought the second female lead would just talk, but who knew she would actually dare to go forward and hit the vicious female lead! ! Be careful of revenge! !

Oddly enough, after being beaten, Shi Qing actually became obedient and removed the aperture.

But she felt that the vicious female supporting character Shi Qing must be very unconvinced, because the four bandages left on that woman's body were all standing straight up like a cat's fur, and then waving in the air with its claws and fangs bared, as if making a silent accusation against Cang.

Cangying usually gives a slap in the face and then a sweet treat.

She restrained her tigress-like strength just now, and returned to the dignified elegance when Shen Xiang first met her. She gently patted Shi Qing's shoulder and smiled softly: "Don't take it to heart, my good Shi Qing, I only hit you because I love you. I am your doctor, and I must always consider your health and safety."

"Hmph." Shi Qing turned his head away, not looking at her, seeming not to care.

Seeing this, Cangying said softly: "Although you are really strong, no matter how strong you are, you can still make mistakes. We should be prepared for the worst. When we shouldn't waste spiritual energy, we'd better save it a little, ok?"

"...Yeah." Shi Qing responded indifferently, showing his indifference.

Her attitude seemed perfunctory, but Shen Xiang found that all the bandages that were dancing around her body had fallen off, swaying with her steps again, as if she had really been soothed.

Chen Xiang: "..." What's with the dog's tail vision? ! !

Cangying returned to Shiqing with satisfaction. Chen Xiang couldn't help but ask quietly, "Is that enough?"

Cangying nodded: "She just likes others to praise her for being strong."

Shen Xiang: “…”

——As expected, I admire the strong!!!
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Spiritual power carries light and can illuminate the surroundings.

However, after entering a narrow passage, the spiritual light disappeared.

Cangying stopped and reached out to touch the stone wall next to her. She felt some stone fragments and sniffed them: "Light-blocking powder."

These fragments can make a person's vision completely dark, and no light can illuminate it.

"We have to be vigilant," she said.

Shi Qing nodded, "Okay."

The path was very narrow, only enough for one person to walk forward. Three people walked in a row, with Shi Qing leading the way, moving forward more cautiously.

But soon the three of them came out, and the spiritual power illuminated the surroundings again.

Shen Xiang pursed his lips: "I thought there was something thrilling."

Cangying said: "Maybe he just wants to scare some people off."

"No." Shi Qing lowered his head, looked at a crack in the ground with a strange pattern, and said, "There is a magic circle."

Cangying followed her line of sight and immediately understood: "There should be a magic circle in that narrow passage, but it was broken by someone before us, and it was broken not long ago..."

Recalling the big hole on the gate of the cave that seemed to be smashed by something, Cangying initially thought that it was destroyed by the strong wind brought by the magic bird. Now she thinks that someone may have discovered this place before them and went deeper.

Chen Xiang knew it was Zhongli Jin, so he pretended to be surprised and said, "So there is another Taoist friend, let's go look for him!"

Unexpectedly, Shi Qing directly refused: "No."

"Why??"

Cangying explained: "Because it's easy to have conflicts when you're looking for opportunities in the same cave with fellow Taoists you don't know. It's best not to meet each other and avoid fighting."

Shen Xiang: “…”

It doesn’t matter. She will find an opportunity to get rid of these two people and go find the male protagonist later.

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[Youngster, can you continue? ]

[…Of course.] After taking the resurrection pill, Zhongli Jin stood up from the ground, straightened his clothes, and continued to move forward.

The snow-white clothes on the young man were already torn and stained with blood. He still hated the blood stain and forced himself to endure it. He would definitely wash them thoroughly after leaving the secret realm.

[I didn't expect that at your young age, you are quite knowledgeable about these Qimen Dunjia formations and illusions. Along the way, you have broken most of the large and small formations.]

Zhongli Jin wiped off the dust on his face and the bloodstains on the corners of his lips, and smiled modestly: [In the first year after being abandoned, in addition to using medicine to make pills and repairing my spiritual roots, I also liked to read some books. At that time, I actually had a direction for future cultivation, and I had been studying alchemy, drawing talismans, and carving array plates. ]

[Not bad, not bad, I really didn’t make a mistake!] The old man sighed: [You are a rare genius in cultivation in a thousand years, young man, this praise is well deserved.]

With his unprecedented speed of cultivation, he was able to use his foundation-building spiritual swordsmanship to force back a cultivator who was about to break through to the late Jindan stage. Although his spiritual roots were cruelly destroyed by the evil cultivator, he was still able to find a glimmer of hope for himself, and seized that opportunity to keep climbing up.

Why a person is destined to be a person of destiny does not depend on his talent or luck. What is more important is his character and perseverance.

Even though he went from being a favored child of heaven to having nothing, Zhongli Jin would sooner or later stand up again and reach the top again.

This is also the reason why the old man chose him.

Those demon cultivators were arrogant, otherwise they would not have just crippled Zhongli Jin two years ago but killed him directly.

One day, the boy will make those guys pay the price for their cruelty, viciousness and arrogance.

[This time it’s really coming.] said the old man.

The last stone chamber.

There is an old stone door in the stone chamber, tightly closed, isolating everything inside and outside the door. It has gone through the baptism of time, mottled and weathered, and engraved with traces of frost. Those cracks, one by one, are like wrinkles on the face of an octogenarian, quietly telling its past.

Zhongli Jin put his hand against the door, but suddenly he felt like he was burned by something!
The young man frowned slightly and looked at his bloody palm with a serious expression.

There seemed to be some force on the door that prevented him from touching it. The old man's surprised voice rang in his mind: [Red Blood Sealing Formation?!]

Red blood seal.

Zhongli Jin was stunned, he had seen this kind of formation in ancient books - the Red Blood Demonic Gate, which sealed thousands.

The person who sets up the formation uses all the blood in his body as the guide of the formation, which quickly forms a red flame field, firmly blocking the target object or area and making it impossible for it to escape.

Then he used the power of the red blood in the magic circle to confront the person who was blocked, and eventually consumed him to death in the circle.

The magic circle can only be broken when the power of red blood is completely consumed or the opponent dies.

[I died on the battlefield ten thousand years ago. There was no such thing in the cave at that time. It must have been set up by the formation master after my death.] The old man murmured: [But... why did he set up this formation? Is there something suppressed in it?]

Zhongli Jin frowned: [If this is true, the array should disappear after the suppressed creature dies. It has been ten thousand years... the array is still continuing... unless——]

——That thing is not dead yet!
"Bang!" A loud noise came from the stone road on the right side of the boy!
Zhongli Jin was startled, and then the sound of wind brushed across his cheek, and the boy dodged behind himself almost reflexively.

He dodged the hard scales that looked like bird feathers and looked sideways.

The next second - his eyes widened.

He saw a huge and twisted bull-headed monster, which seemed to be formed by the energy of darkness and chaos, standing at the corner at the end of the stone path on the right, staring at him with its huge mouth open.

Its body was in irregular blocks, covered with rough and hard scales. It looked ancient and evil, like a mass of demonic energy. Its two scarlet eyes flashed with cruelty, and its mouth was cracked, revealing sharp and jagged fangs. Its saliva dripped with a sizzling sound, which was chilling.

The bull-headed monster had strong limbs and claws as sharp as knives, which could easily tear apart any obstacle that blocked it. Behind it was a pair of huge wings covered with black feather-like scales, which were the same as the ones that had just been launched at the boy.

——How could there be such a monster here? !
A strong demonic aura mixed with heat, Zhongli Jin knew clearly that with his current strength, he could not defeat the opponent at all!

[Youngsters! Run!] the old man said anxiously.

The boy turned and ran away, and the monster chased after him, pounding heavily on the door where Zhongli Jin had been standing before, as if it had not really discovered the boy's trace, but was attracted by the sound of the magic circle being activated.

Seeing this, Zhongli Jin stopped.

He remembered that he had taken the Cangxi Pill before, which could conceal his body, reduce the need for breathing, and lighten his body weight, making it less likely for monsters to find him.

The bull-headed monster went crazy for a while but gained nothing. It then turned around and dragged its huge and bulky body slowly and aimlessly in another direction.

With every step he took, his body twitched and he let out a low, sharp, piercing laugh.

The powerful pressure made it hard for the oppressed to breathe.

When it disappeared from Zhongli Jin's sight, the young man finally felt a little relieved.

When I touched my forehead, I was covered in cold sweat.

[The stone chamber is locked by the Red Blood Sealing Formation, and there are violent monsters outside. What happened here after I died? ] The old man murmured, his heart seemed to be extremely heavy.

Zhong Lijin said in a low and serious voice: [The formation outside has never been broken by anything. I have only broken a little bit along the way. The monster may have existed in the cave from the beginning and was also trapped by the killing formation and could not get out. Tens of millions of years have passed like this.]

And the monster just now seemed like a group of monsters combined together.

Bull heads, blocks of bodies of varying sizes, bird feathers, snake scales, bird claws, animal feet...

It was as if someone had used magic to sew together the corpses of monsters and deliberately created this terrifying thing.

At the same time, a faint sound of collision was heard from behind the sealed stone door.

If there is such a monster outside the door, then there must be an even more terrifying existence sealed inside the door. After all, what kind of thing could remain immortal for thousands of years in the Red Blood Sealing Array?

Once released, this area and even the entire Flaming Mountain would probably be threatened.

[The Red Blood Sealing Formation uses the essence and blood of the person who sets up the formation as a guide to form a red blood force that binds the enemy. Either the essence and blood are burned out to break the formation, or the opponent is killed to dissolve the formation. Not only have the monsters fought for tens of millions of years, but the red blood force in this formation has also persisted for tens of millions of years, senior...] Zhong Lijin's voice was slightly sad: [Does this also mean that in the process of setting up this formation, there were more than tens of millions of people who voluntarily sacrificed their essence and blood...]

The old man sighed: [Child, these are their choices. You can be grateful and shed tears, but you don’t need to feel guilty or sad about it.]

Sacrifice your life to suppress the devil and protect life.

[I understand.] Zhongli Jin smiled tiredly.

The monster has left here. It has been wandering here for thousands of years.

Since the stone chamber is sealed by the Red Blood Killing Formation, it must not be opened.

[Go back, senior.] The boy said.

Now, he could only express regret for those medicinal herbs and treasures.

[Alas, I didn't expect it to turn out like this.] The old man shook his head slightly, [Young man, you've come here for nothing.]

Zhong Lijin chuckled: [It would be a waste of time if there was no gain, but I did not get nothing. At least, along the way, I saw various formations, some solemn, some dreamy, some ghostly, and some changeable. Later, if I want to further consolidate my spiritual roots and increase my cultivation speed, I can think of other ways.]

He would not feel any big regrets. For him, this nearly one day was also a kind of experience.

The boy was about to leave, but when he turned around, he suddenly heard a horrible scream - "Ah ...

The voice was extremely familiar. I had heard it not long ago.

——Junior sister, Shi Xiang.

Zhongli Jin stopped and looked solemnly at the stone road where the voice came from. He rushed towards that direction without any hesitation!

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Chen Xiang originally wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of Shi Qing and Cangying, but once he left the aperture, the stuffiness and stench of the cave would come.

There was no choice but for her to follow the two of them obediently all the way.

After walking for a long time, they saw various magic arrays, but it seemed that they had all been cracked by the male protagonist.

Shen Xiang was tired from walking, and said to Shi Qing: "I don't want to move anymore, my feet are sore, let's rest here for a while."

She used to be a rich lady, she always took a luxury car or a super luxurious high-speed train to go anywhere, what kind of transportation has she not seen? She didn't even need to walk much!

Except airplanes, of course.

She is afraid of heights, but it is a fear deep in her bones.

　Good night babies!! Chen Xiang will suffer soon...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)